FMT302- You Are Recently Been Appointed As The Head of Consultant of a FM Consultancy Firm – Operation and Maintenance of Building Services: TMA 02 |, Singapore

Assignment Details:

You are recently been appointed as the Head of Consultant of an FM consultancy firm to conduct life-cycle management (LCM) analysis for buildings such as university/college campuses, airport/seaport terminals, sports complex, hospital complex, hotels, manufacturing plants and other building complexes. The building that you would be looking into should be of the age of 10 years and above. The facilities operations run for 12 or 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. You require to recommend to the management on the asset replacement strategy and the equipment maintenance programme to prolong the life span of the operation of the system.

This TMA requires you to choose a building development for one of the above (non-residential building) which you have or can gain access to for your study. The building maintenance consists of in-house and outsources teams comprise of manager, supervisors, engineers, and technicians and they are responsible for maintaining the entire plant equipment and assets in the building, including electrical HT & LT, lifts and escalators, ACMV, BMS, EMS, fire alarm and fire protection system, water services (pumps, storage tanks and distribution system), gas services, waste & sewerage services and etc.
Perform thorough engineering analysis, maintenance data trending and energy study of the services and the associated systems to the selected building and analyse the system operation performance.

You should make reference to industry-accepted norms, established code of practices, relevant engineering and FM standards, and/or good engineering practices, including equipment life span; maintenance requirements, future developments (where appropriate); customer service; workplace comfort; and any other issues of concern.

Questions For FMT302: Operation and Maintenance of Building Services, Tutor Marked Assignment 02 | SUSS University Singapore

1. Provide the name and address of the building /development. Explain the general characteristics of the building in term of its functions, facilities, M&E services, number of storeys, type of development, etc?
2. Evaluate and discuss the key considerations of conducting the Life Cycle Management analysis for building facilities services, in particular the M&E system?
3. Appraise and conduct formal health audit assessment on the current M&E equipment and system’s conditions from the beginning of system operation to the current state. Support with the health check records and photo of the system conditions. You are required to concentrate on two systems and provide data from a logging instrument to illustrate the assessment?
4. Review existing maintenance’s methods of work and procurement specifications to achieve Green Maintainability standard for the M&E services?
5. Recommendation for asset replacement strategy and the equipment maintenance programme to prolong the life span of the system operation (where appropriate)?